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  • Four children leap out into the wide blue yonder on a beach in Whitley Bay, England. Jumping at a height from a sea defence wall, the kids all hold their towels above their heads and as they leave the ground, look down to their landing spot - the soft sand below. It is a scene of chilhood recklnessness, when children and young people take risks that adults don't. But  youngsters don't have a sense of danger but instead, exhilarating desire for adventure. The beach in the distance is largely deserted so the kids have lots of space to fulfill their games.
    beach_jump-18-10-1993.jpg
  • A hunched, homeless elderly man walks along Fenchurch Street in the City of London while younger and affluent office workers saunter past, smiling and with a care in the world. It is a scene of social class division, the contrasts between wealth and poverty, have and have nots, prospects and no hope for the future and of old age and youth. The old man carries a plastic bag with all his belongings and the workers carry their lunch in a paper bag. They are not only smart and he dishevelled but they stand tall and he is stooped, further proof of the hard, demanding life he leads on the capital's streets.
    misc-london02-30-08-2007.jpg
  • An elderly homeless man walks slowly past a Barclays Bank cash dispenser at which business people are either queueing or typing in their PIN numbers from cash accounts, or simply passing-by. One middle-aged gent stands eyeing the poor man suspiciously while other men of wealth, prospects and prosperity are tall and stand erect in smart suits and polished shoes, the homeless man is hunched and dishevelled, carrying a supermarket bag - perhaps containing all of his worldly goods. It is a tragic scene of extremes between the haves and the have-nots; the rich and poor; between people with hope and those in despair. This is the City of London, near Fenchurch Street Station where the UK's insurance companies are based and it is impossible to know if any of these men in smart clothes are the same age as the poor man.
    city_london14-15-12-2007 .jpg
  • An unfortunate and hunched, elderly woman sells flowers to uncaring young passers-by on a Krakow street corner, Poland.
    begging_poland01-19-06-1990.jpg
  • As normal life continues a man under the influence of alcohol lies unconscious in Hollywood near a poster of Charlie Chaplin.
    chaplin_drunk01-20-08-1998.jpg
  • Air passengers exit and enter a transit train at Chicago O'Hare airport, Illinois USA. They pull suitcases behind them as they negotiate the airport terminal transport system that takes them across the sprawling complex of terminals and tunnels. A large central yellow traffic arrow saying OUT is most prominent telling arriving people to keep in the middle, allowing those departing to enter the carriage from the sides. There is a slight blur to the picture showing the hurrying nature of modern air travel, vastly different from the pioneering days of flight for only the socially elite. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903..
    aviation_corbis49-10-11-2000.jpg
  • A detail of a notepad jotter with inspirational words on the top of each sheet of A5 paper. The words 'doodle, list, jot, collate, note down and create' help personnel at a counselling workshop make the right decisions during a day of ideas and creativity brainstorming, held for employees at Prospect House, Borough, Southwark, London. An out of focus biro pen is placed diagonally on the paper that has been left on  office table furniture for arriving staff.
    ernst+young_counsillors03-18-09-2007.jpg
  • A blurred figure exits a lift (elevator) at night after having travelled down the height of British architect Sir Richard Rogers' Lloyds building insurance HQ building in the City of London. His compartment doors have opened into the building's foyer and he walks out into the street while the other lifts sit idle on the right or still on an upper floor. Lloyd's of London which is located at number 1, Lime Street. Lloyd's is a British insurance market. It serves as a meeting place where multiple financial backers or "members", whether individuals (traditionally known as "Names") or corporations, come together to pool and spread risk. The Lloyds market began in Edward Lloyd's coffeehouse around 1688 and is today the world's leading insurance market providing specialist insurance services to businesses in over 200 countries and territories.
    elevator_man-15-07-1993.jpg
  • As traffic zooms past, the art installation called 'House' stands alone on a now-empty and house-less East London street. Oddly, the contours of the structure have been inverted to reveal an inside-out version of the original building. It is a concrete cast of the inside of an entire Victorian terraced house completed in autumn 1993 and exhibited at the location of the original property -- 193 Grove Road -- in East London (all the houses in the street had earlier been knocked down by the council). Created by the artist Rachel Whiteread CBE (born 1963) this is her best-known sculpture. It won her the Turner Prize (the first woman to do so) for best young British artist in 1993. Here we see 'House' next to a lamp post which throws down it's light on a winter evening, before it was controversially demolished by the council in January 1994.
    rachel_whiteread01-15-12-2007 .jpg
  • Construction workers wearing hard hats hook up a pile of concrete beams on to a waiting crane hook. One man bends down to help loop a chain beneath one of the girders and attached to the dangling hook while another secures the chain and another man is in radio contact with the crane driver out of sight. Importantly, behind their low-loader truck is a Smirnoff advertising billboard with a famous ad campaign for the Vodka distillery. It depicts three carved Polynesian statues of Easter Island but seen through a botttle of the alcoholic beverage, is a representation of a face wearing a head band and MP3 headphones. Seen juxtaposed with the construction men and their building technology this scene describes a visual pun between an ancient lost civilization and the modern age of technology. Smirnoff is a vodka distillery founded in Moscow, by Piotr Arsenieyevich Smirnov. The .brand is now distributed in 130 countries and includes flavored vodka and malt beverages. The Sminoff advertising campaign is said to be based on the Belgian surrealist artist Rene Magritte whose paradoxical images stretched our ideas of what was reality and the fantastic...
    RB-0141.jpg
  • Construction workers wearing hard hats hook up a pile of concrete beams on to a waiting crane hook. One man bends down to help loop a chain beneath one of the girders and attached to the dangling hook while another secures the chain and another man is in radio contact with the crane driver out of sight. Importantly, behind their low-loader truck is a Smirnoff advertising billboard with a famous ad campaign for the Vodka distillery. It depicts three carved Polynesian statues of Easter Island but seen through a botttle of the alcoholic beverage, is a representation of a face wearing a head band and MP3 headphones. Seen juxtaposed with the construction men and their building technology this scene describes a visual pun between an ancient lost civilization and the modern age of technology. Smirnoff is a vodka distillery founded in Moscow, by Piotr Arsenieyevich Smirnov. The .brand is now distributed in 130 countries and includes flavored vodka and malt beverages. The Sminoff advertising campaign is said to be based on the Belgian surrealist artist Rene Magritte whose paradoxical images stretched our ideas of what was reality and the fantastic...
    RB-0141.jpg
  • Firemen pump out water from basements following a burst water main which closed the otherwise busy junction of Half Moon Lane and Dulwich Road in the south London area of Herne Hill. Emergency services were called at about 5am, when water inundated local businesses, forcing shopkeepers and owners to evacuate their properties and leave before electricity supplies were shut down. Copyright Richard Baker / Alamy Live News.
    SE24waterburst_aftermath01-07-08-201...jpg
  • Looking down from above, we see young men who are open-chested and with their suit jackets either beneath their heads or on the grass, three office co-workers stretch out over the lush grass and sunbathe during a hot summer lunchtime in Trinity Square in the City of London, England. One has his paperwork under his head and a can of Coke to quench his thirst. Already tanned, the threesome bask under a hot mid-day sun. Risking sunburn after prolonged solar radiation exposure, they enjoy the inner-city heatwave.
    RB_032-16-07-1998.jpg
  • A car owner attempts to shovel his way out of snow on a hill in South London. Bending down to remove the fallen snow from the road, he will again try to get a grip and friction of the slippery surface in order to make it up the gradient in Herne Hill. A van behind is already becoming impatient and is about to get past the stranded car and a passer-by looks on from the pavement, bemused. As the capital's infrastructure ground to a halt, with few trains and no buses for commuters to catch, walking and driving remained the only options.
    london_snow60-02-02_2009.jpg
  • A car owner attempts to shovel his way out of snow on a hill in South London. Bending down to remove the fallen snow from the road, he will again try to get a grip and friction of the slippery surface in order to make it up the gradient in Herne Hill. A van behind is already becoming impatient and is about to get past the stranded car and a passer-by looks on from the pavement, bemused. As the capital's infrastructure ground to a halt, with few trains and no buses for commuters to catch, walking and driving remained the only options.
    london_snow60-02-02_2009.jpg
  • Firemen pump out water from basements following a burst water main which closed the otherwise busy junction of Half Moon Lane and Dulwich Road in the south London area of Herne Hill. Emergency services were called at about 5am, when water inundated local businesses, forcing shopkeepers and owners to evacuate their properties and leave before electricity supplies were shut down. Copyright Richard Baker / Alamy Live News.
    SE24waterburst_aftermath02-07-08-201...jpg
  • An executive peers down on his employees on a giant screen, addressing his loyal audience of his staff who have congregated at an Academy Day held for 3,000 of company London employees at Excel in London's Docklands, England. The hall is packed and his disciples listen and watch intently and obediently to watch their Leader speak like a Big Brother character, who ernestly and sincerely talks down to them despite being dressed casually for such a large event. Each employee will attend this brainstorming fair where later, motivational pep-talks from executives, outside speakers and gurus will talk to large groups of personnel so their presence on this day away from the office is vital for the year's business ahead.
    Ernst+Young_Academy148-21-09-2007.jpg
  • A mother and father carry their child's pushchair down steep steps in London.
    steps_shadows06-07-02-2014.jpg
  • man is lying down on the steps of Royal Exchange opposite the Bank of England in the City of London, to take a nap under a mid-day sun in the heart of the capital's financial district. A red double-decker Routemaster bus has stopped in a queue of traffic opposite with an advert for London buses saying 'We've got to get this city to work' but with tattoos on his arms and his forehead and wearing heavy army-style boots, he is clearly not on his way to a job and therefore out-of-place in this busy part of London. With arms folded and head resting on an unseasonal coat, the man is asleep and going nowhere.
    city_bus_sleep-20-06-1993.jpg
  • A walker admires the view across the escarpment of Tennyson Downs on the Isle-of-Wight. Looking over his shoulder into the distance, the walker is alone on his solo pursuit along some of Britain's most beautiful coastlines, here on the south coast. The rolling downland stretches westwards - its white chalk cliffs famous for symbolising England's southern limits. Tennyson Down is a hill at the west end of the Isle of Wight just south of Totland. Tennyson Down is a grassy, whale-backed ridge of chalk which rises to 482 ft/147m above sea level. Tennyson Down is named after the poet Lord Tennyson who lived at nearby Farringford House for nearly 40 years. The poet used to walk on the down almost every day, saying that the air was worth 'sixpence a pint'.
    coastal_walker-18-06-1989.jpg
  • A local dad sledges down a hill in South London. Trying to pick up speed he holds his legs out in front to avoid too much breaking as deep snow has blocked this quiet road in Herne Hill, SE24. Behind the father is his son who also comes downhill, past parked cars that are all covered in snow - abandoned by owners who would otherwise have driven to work. settling on this part of London's inner-city - an unusual event - and the  heaviest precipitation for 18 years.
    london_snow45-02-02_2009.jpg
  • A local dad sledges down a hill in South London. Trying to pick up speed he holds his legs out in front to avoid too much breaking as deep snow has blocked this quiet road in Herne Hill, SE24. Behind the father is his son who also comes downhill, past parked cars that are all covered in snow - abandoned by owners who would otherwise have driven to work. settling on this part of London's inner-city - an unusual event - and the  heaviest precipitation for 18 years.
    london_snow45-02-02_2009.jpg
  • The artist Rachel Whiteread CBE (born 1963) sits on the steps of her best-known sculpture called 'House'. 'House' stands alone on a now-empty and house-less East London street. Oddly, the contours of the structure have been inverted to reveal an inside-out version of the original building. It is a concrete cast of the inside of an entire Victorian terraced house completed in autumn 1993 and exhibited at the location of the original property -- 193 Grove Road -- in East London (all the houses in the street had earlier been knocked down by the council). It won Whiteread the Turner Prize (the first woman to do so) for best young British artist in 1993. Here we see 'House' at a close distance with graffiti painted on the walls stating the words "Wot for ..why not!" before it was controversially demolished by the council in January 1994.
    rachel_whiteread02-15-12-2007 .jpg
  • Scaled history from the 'Splendid China' model village and modern architecture in the Shenzhen metropolis, China. With a foreground of China's history represented by a classical dynasty constructed in wood and the looming presence of the modern concrete city - the materials separated by thousands of years. We see some of the 50,000 ceramic figures and scenes from a period in Chinese history and further away, a modern corporate building in the metropolis contrasting with ancient, traditional architecture. Splendid China is an attraction at the Overseas Chinese Town, Shenzhen that has scaled down replicas of China's historical buildings, wonderful scenes and folk customs. The scale models are of a 1:15 with 100 miniaturized landmarks such as The Terracotta Warriors; Great Wall; Forbidden City; Old Summer Palace etc. all laid out according to their geographic locations.
    china_shenzen-21-04-1995.jpg
  • In a field at the town of Boofzheim in the eastern French Alsace region, an elderly Frenchman harvests some of his self-grown carrots crop. Having left his old bicycle standing at the kerb of a narrow access road and in front of a field full of maturing maize, he bends down with much effort to dig in his fork or spade into the rich Alsace earth and lift out his vegetables to take home. This landscape is typically French or German (Alsace borders the western side of Germany and saw much tragic action in WW2) where maize is a nutritious foodstuff for cattle and also for ducks and geese who are force-fed it locally in the making of fois gras and pate.
    french_farmer10-12-1997.jpg
  • As the effects of Coronavirus continues to close down businesses and places of entertainment, and because of the governments's urge for home-working and avoidence of social gatherings, the West End of the UK's capital is unusually quieter than normal on a mid-week evening. On the day that the death toll reached 104 and that British schools would close indefinitely from the end of the week, the Evening Standard newspaper is handed out, headlining with central London being the UK's pandemic hotspot, on 18th March 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_Theatreland-29-18-03-202...jpg
  • As the effects of Coronavirus continues to close down businesses and places of entertainment, and because of the governments's urge for home-working and avoidence of social gatherings, the West End of the UK's capital is unusually quieter than normal on a mid-week evening. On the day that the death toll reached 104 and that British schools would close indefinitely from the end of the week, the Evening Standard newspaper is handed out, headlining with central London being the UK's pandemic hotspot, on 18th March 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_Theatreland-28-18-03-202...jpg
  • Historical monk figures in 'Splendid China' model village and modern architecture in the Shenzhen metropolis, China. This foreground is of China's history represented by a classical dynasty and the looming presence of the modern concrete city. We see some of the 50,000 ceramic figures and scenes from a period in Chinese history and further away, a modern corporate building in the metropolis contrasting with ancient, traditional architecture. Splendid China is an attraction at the Overseas Chinese Town, Shenzhen that has scaled down replicas of China's historical buildings, wonderful scenes and folk customs. The scale models are of a 1:15 with 100 miniaturized landmarks such as The Terracotta Warriors; Great Wall; Forbidden City; Old Summer Palace etc. all laid out according to their geographic locations.
    china_monks-21-04-1995.jpg
  • As the effects of Coronavirus continues to close down businesses and places of entertainment, and because of the governments's urge for home-working and avoidence of social gatherings, the West End of the UK's capital is unusually quieter than normal on a mid-week evening. On the day that the death toll reached 104 and that British schools would close indefinitely from the end of the week, the Evening Standard newspaper is handed out, headlining with central London being the UK's pandemic hotspot, on 18th March 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_Theatreland-27-18-03-202...jpg
  • As the effects of Coronavirus continues to close down businesses and places of entertainment, and because of the governments's urge for home-working and avoidence of social gatherings, the West End of the UK's capital is unusually quieter than normal on a mid-week evening. On the day that the death toll reached 104 and that British schools would close indefinitely from the end of the week, the Evening Standard newspaper is handed out, headlining with central London being the UK's pandemic hotspot, on 18th March 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_Theatreland-26-18-03-202...jpg
  • As the effects of Coronavirus continues to close down businesses and places of entertainment, and because of the governments's urge for home-working and avoidence of social gatherings, the West End of the UK's capital is unusually quieter than normal on a mid-week evening. On the day that the death toll reached 104 and that British schools would close indefinitely from the end of the week, the Evening Standard newspaper is handed out, headlining with central London being the UK's pandemic hotspot, on 18th March 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_Theatreland-25-18-03-202...jpg
  • With hands outstretched and a nervous smile on her face, a 3 year-old goes head first down a slide in her local park in south London.
    girl_slide-23-04-1998.jpg
  • Looking down on them from above, we see a brother and sister play with free airline blindfolds while in their parents' bed at the family home in South London. Pretending to be blind, they giggle at this hilarious and childish game as if acting out the speak and see no evil. From a personal documentary project entitled "Next of Kin" about the photographer's two children's early years spent in parallel universes. Model released.
    ella+sam26-23-07_2002.jpg
  • Looking down on an elderly couple as they sit on soft sand at a beach in Lowestoft, Suffolk, England. Full-clothed, even on this warm day, they look out to see and watch something of interest towards the water's edge. They may be daytrippers to this east coast seaside resort and will only spend a short time under the sun, keeping thei sandals on. The husband points and the wife funbles for her sstraw hat that matches his.
    beach_couple-12-06-1992.jpg
  • Two children lay down on the ground at the foot of a solid dry stone wall, up in the hills of the area of northern England known as the Dales, near Settle, Yorkshire. The two brother and sister have their faces against the rocks that serve as boundaries and enclosures for farmers and land owners. These walls were built by tradesmen called Wallers, a dying tradition and skill. Dry stone walls are constructed from stones without any mortar to bind them together. The wall is held up by special construction methods and by its weight. The stones must be carefully selected by shape to ensure that they have a large contact surface area with their neighbours and so do not slip. They are a legacy of the movement towards enclosure of common farming and grazing land as English society moved away from medieval feudalism. Model released.
    ella+sam23-21-02_2002.jpg
  • A group of young men are standing in a train corridor admiring some attractive young ladies through the open door of a railway compartment. They are all on their way from London's Waterloo mainline station to Ascot in Berkshire for Ladies Day during the Royal Ascot racing week. In the foreground, a lad wearing a dark suit and yellow tie tugs on his shirt sleeve in a confident and assertive manner before approaching the girls to say hello. He and another man are looking amorously down towards the seated females who are dressed in summer skirts and tops, in readiness for a warm day at the races. Royal Ascot is held every June and is one of the main dates on the sporting calendar and social season.
    RB-0124.jpg
  • Wearing a company wastecoat and blue rubber gloves, the uniform of a Holiday Inn employee, a man of Black ethnicity bends forward to wipe the glass revolving doors at the entrance of this hotel in Paris. Nearby is the man's trolley containing janitorial cleaning products such as a mop and bucket, towels, cloth rolls, atomiser sprays, detergents and tissues needed to maintain the high standards of this motel chain. Coincidentally, a customer is also bending down to re-arrange something in her baggage and leaning at the same angle as the cleaner.
    esa_guiana02113-08-2007.jpg
  • During the evening rush hour, hundreds of rail commuters are queueing to board a Thameslink train which has just arrived on the platform at Farringdon Station in Clerkenwell, London England. Standing 10-deep, they patiently wait the next ride home southbound during a tube strike forced the closure of underground stations and making workers take alternative routes. Looking down from a high bridge we see the train's roof and the heads of those delayed and inconvenienced. It is another miserable journey home.
    RB_116-08-05-1989.jpg
  • A lone passenger gazes out from the departure lounge at Charles de Gaulle/Roissy airport terminal to where airliners are parked. It is late evening and blue light outside makes the orange interior look warm. Designed by Paul Andreu, Charles de Gaulle became a symbol for airport modernity - a Le Corbusier concept of rail stations and ?autodromes.? Charles de Gaulle?s role as airport and rail station fuses into one, thus becoming an ?Aérogare? where trains and planes whisk the new world traveller of the late ?60s, away beyond an ever-extending horizon. From here, the Air France Concorde crashed on the aviation employment town of Gonesse on July 25th 2000. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903. .
    aviation_corbis30-27-07-2000.jpg
  • A man picks-up a dropped item as Storm Georgina sweeps across parts of Britain and in central London, lunchtime office workers were caught out by torrential rain and high winds, on 24th January 2018, in London, England. Pedestrians resorted to leaping across deep puddles at the junction of New Oxford Street and Kingsway at Holborn, the result of overflowing drains.
    storm_georgina-04-24-01-2018.jpg
  • A Books Etc bookseller now closed, a victim of the UK recession, a former branch in the financial City of London. Around a recession-bled Britain, high-street businesses have been going bust in their thousands. Britain has now endured eight recessions since the Second World War. No two recessions are alike, and that applies to the current slowdown also. It has been caused by a shock to the availability of credit, a massive build up of debt. The number of people out of work currently stands at almost two million. Given the rate at which the economy is deteriorating this could easily be above three million. From a continuing piece of work about windows and urban messages, the picture is from the project of closed business windows: 'Bust - the Art of Recession'.
    books_etc01-30-01-2013.jpg
  • A Books Etc bookseller now closed, a victim of the UK recession, a former branch in the financial City of London. Around a recession-bled Britain, high-street businesses have been going bust in their thousands. Britain has now endured eight recessions since the Second World War. No two recessions are alike, and that applies to the current slowdown also. It has been caused by a shock to the availability of credit, a massive build up of debt. The number of people out of work currently stands at almost two million. Given the rate at which the economy is deteriorating this could easily be above three million. From a continuing piece of work about windows and urban messages, the picture is from the project of closed business windows: 'Bust - the Art of Recession'.
    books_etc02-30-01-2013.jpg
  • Against orange evening light, a forest of high-rise cranes stand upright at the masive Canary Wharf development on London's Docklands, England. It is early evening and the crane drivers have left for the day, the day's shift have stopped work before resuming tomorrow. The silhouetted lines of each structure stand out clearly against the skyline before the regeneration of this region of East London grows upward. Canary Wharf is the product of the 1980s financial boom when during the office of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, huge building projects such as the Docklands consortium saw vast changes in London's landscape.
    RB_070-10-05-2001.jpg
  • New recruits of the British Royal Gurkha Regiment learn to parade for their official photograph at their army camp in Pokhara, Nepal after recently being recruited into the regiment after a gruelling series of tests to eliminate the weaker and less able candidates, before the 160 lucky candidates travel to the UK for basic training. 60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. Nepal has been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
    gurkha_recruitment04-16-01-1997.jpg
  • A rear view of a man eating his lunch with his orange tie laying over his shoulder and down his back, at the Strand West End branch of Sushi restaurant, ITSU, on 28th September 2020, in London, England.
    orange_tie01-28-09-2020.jpg
  • A man carries two Pret a Manger lunch bags down Bow Lane in the City of London, the capital's financial district and oldest district, on 22March 2019, in London, England.
    pret_buyer -01-22-03-2019.jpg
  • An elderly gentleman wearing a flat cap and a pinstripe suite walks slowly down Lower Regent Street with the aide of a walking stick, on 1st May, in London, England.
    elderly_gentleman-01-01-05-2018.jpg
  • A closed sign is stuck to the glass and metal shutters have been rolled down in a shop window in Weston-super-Mare, a victim of the UK recession.
    closed_businesses097-11-04-2009.jpg
  • An elderly couple walk down a country lane in Burrington Combe, North Somerset.
    walkers-lane-20-08-2003.jpg
  • As flames ignite under the engine, firefighters attend a car fire in central London. A Ford car has caught fire in its engine compartment during the evening and firemen have been called to attend. With the bonnet open, fire is still seen beneath the engine and near front tyres where fuel and oil may be ready to ignite too. Pointing a hose into the seat of the fire, a firefighter sprays a pressured jet of water into the affected area.
    firemen_fire-18-06-1993.jpg
  • Shattered shop sign and light fittings in a shopping precinct, a victim of the UK recession. .
    closed_businesses02-24-12_2008.jpg
  • We are looking upwards into the faces of two surgeons wearing medical masks and surgical gowns as they carry out a wisdom tooth extraction procedure at the famous St. Bartholomews (Barts) Hospital in London, England. With eyes focussed on their work, the two health professionals are intently looking into the mouth of their patient who is covered in clean green sheets but remains unseen to the viewer. Strong operating theatre lights shine down on to the patient and we see the men's gloved hands reaching carefully, avoiding infection or bacterial problems like MRSA. Barts is Britain's oldest hospital - founded in 1123 - and boasts a progressive policy of encouraging day-surgery for out-patients allowing patients to return home soon after their minor operations.
    city_london07-15-12-2007.jpg
  • We see a male passenger from the waste down with a laptop computer in one hand and a Retriever puppy peering out from his owner's bag in the other, both human and pet are about to board a domestic flight from Chicago O'Hare airport. According to the American Transport Security Administration, taking pets into the aircraft cabin is permissable but the animal is required to be presented to the Security Officers at the checkpoint. it may also walk with its owner through the metal detector but not through the x-ray scanner. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903. .
    aviation_corbis51-10-11-2000.jpg
  • An elderly lady resident of a tower block, watches the outside world from her high-rise window, overlooking the Middlesex Estate in the City of London. A window box with geraniums is by the glass and she peeers down to a bleak urban estate, empty of human contact or friendly neighbours. She lives alone in this grim place but she is looking after herself showing brushed hair , a lace top and lipstick. The world outside is a depressingly empty landscape of concrete walkways and garage doors, an inner-city environment devoid of human interaction or friendliness..
    city_london11-15-12-2007 .jpg
  • As traffic zooms past, the art installation called 'House' stands alone on a now-empty and house-less East London street, on 2nd December 1993, in London, England. The contours of the structure have been inverted to reveal an inside-out version of the original building. It is a concrete cast of the inside of an entire Victorian terraced house completed in autumn 1993 and exhibited at the location of the original property -- 193 Grove Road -- in East London (all the houses in the street had earlier been knocked down by the council). Created by the artist Rachel Whiteread CBE (born 1963) this is her best-known sculpture. It won her the Turner Prize (the first woman to do so) for best young British artist in 1993 before being controversially demolished by the council in January 1994.
    whiteread's_house-02-12-1993.jpg
  • High above the streets of Old Lisbon, we see a Portuguese lady leaning out of her window to hang out her washing on the line that is attached to her home's exterior wall in the Bairro Alto district - or Upper City - the oldest of Lisbon's residential quarters. Items of underwear, socks and other miscellaneous clothing have been strung out on the line that is now pegged along the crumbling wall's surface with faded, peeling plaster and paint. A TV aerial has also been fixed precariously by the window and it's shadow can be seen in the sunshine which is strong and side-lighting the scene which has a warm, morning glow about it. Lisbon's Bairro Alto quarter is located above Baixa and developed in the 16th Century. Suffering very little damage in the earthquake of 1755, it remains the area of most character and renowned for its residential and working quarter for craftsmen and shopkeepers. At night, life takes on a diferent personality when bars and up until the 60s, prostitution gave the district a bad reputation in the past but nowadays tourists and the chic frequent its streets and traditional 'Fado' (classical Portuguese opera) bars.  ...
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  • Three dads are looking their respective children of varying ages - from a baby to an infant and 8-year old. In the foreground a father reads his tabloid newspaper as his toddler sleeps contentedly in its pushchair, a dummy in the mouth and a blanket scross its body to keep out a chilly breeze. Further back another man stands waiting for his partner with a baby, also asleep in the buggy. And thirdly, a male pushes his daughter in pink up a small slope on a bicycle that uses stablizers. It is a busy scene on Paignton seafront on the Devon coast. Elsewhere children and adults of all ages walk along the esplanade enjoying an overcast and windy day on holiday. This theatrical scene is about the ideal father and the family unit.
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  • Hosing down a freshly-killed line caught yellow fin tuna fish on the blue deck of a traditional dhoni fishing boat, Maldives
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  • British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher's political career of 11 years ends emotionally on the steps of 10 Downing Street after being deposed in a leadership challenge, on 28th November 1990 in London, England. Standing close behind her is Thatcher's husband and lifelong confidente, Dennis.
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  • Standing behind barriers opposite Prime Minister Brown's Downing Street in Whitehall, the heart of Britain's governmental district in Westminster, some of the thousands of pro-Tibet protesters angrily shout their messages to 80 torchbearing personalities who ran 31 miles through the UK capital's streets. We see them holding images of dead Tibetans, killed by Chinese forces during the most recent crackdown in Lhasa and holding placards with anti-Chinese messages. Amid chaotic scenes across London and Paris where mass-arrests and civil disobedience marked what was planned as a  pre-Olympic carnival, the IOC's event proved a disaster for Chinese organisers. 37 were arrested but these facts were blanked from official TV screens which showed only the calm personlities who carried in turn the Olympic flame.
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  • Hosing down a freshly-killed line caught yellow fin tuna fish on the blue deck of a traditional dhoni fishing boat, Maldives
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  • A fisherman from the Maldives clubs to death a yellow fin tuna on the deck of a dhoni boat in the Indian Ocean. Using a handmade instrument of death, carved from beach flotsam, the man raises his hands to again bring the club down on the dying fish whose skull has already been smashed by repeated blows. Next it will be gutted efficiently with sharp knives and immediately plunged into ice containers to cool the flesh, reducing the risk of self-deteriorating flushed blood which renders it unfit for consumption under EU law (its live internal core temperature is 40 degrees centigrade). When as many fish have been caught before dark using hand and line method, rather than nets, the boat presses on to the processing factory at Himmafushi where they're filleted and boxed for export to Europe and in particular, for UK supermarkets like Sainsbury's.
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  • With blood and guts on the blue deck, a fisherman from the Maldives hoses down a yellow fin tuna on the floor of a dhoni boat in the Indian Ocean. After clubbing it death, he has removed its respiratory organs with sharp knives and washes it down with a hose. Next it will be plunged into ice containers to cool the flesh, reducing the risk of self-deteriorating flushed blood which renders it unfit for consumption under EU law (its live internal core temperature is 40 degrees centigrade). When as many fish have been caught (often weighing 50kg) before dark using hand and line method, rather than nets, the boat presses on to the processing factory at Himmafushi where they're filleted and boxed for export to Europe and in particular, for UK supermarkets like Sainsbury's.
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  • Facing its own blood and guts on the blue deck, a yellow fin tuna is dead on the floor of a dhoni boat in the Indian Ocean. After clubbing it death, fishermen from the Maldives have removed its respiratory organs with sharp knives and washes it down with a hose. Next it will be plunged into ice containers to cool the flesh, reducing the risk of self-deteriorating flushed blood which renders it unfit for consumption under EU law (its live internal core temperature is 40 degrees centigrade). When as many fish have been caught (often weighing 50kg) before dark using hand and line method, rather than nets, the boat presses on to the processing factory at Himmafushi where they're filleted and boxed for export to Europe and in particular, for UK supermarkets like Sainsbury's.
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  • A lone departing female passenger descends one of the 105 escalators in Terminal 5 of London's Heathrow Airport. Surrounded by the grand architecture created by the Richard Rogers Partnership (now Rogers Stirk Harbour and Partners), we look upwards at this vast atrium that takes passengers through 5A in departures to the outlying gates into Terminal 5B.Terminal 5 has the capacity to serve around 30 million passengers a year, taking £4.3bn to build. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009). ...
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  • Two contestants of the world worm charming competition bend down to use a fork and a recorder to encourage invertebrates out of the ground in a field at Willaston, Cheshire, England. One woman wears a plastic helmet and the other has a worm illustrated t-shirt with a handmade sign that reads"Ive got the worms!" There are 18 rules translated into 30 languages (including Tibetan) but here these two daft ladies use music and garden tools to vibrate the earth helping the worms to the surface in a 3-metre square plot. International flags are behind but local hero Tom Shufflebotham's 1980 world record still stands at 511 worms out of the ground in half an hour. The fattest  worm ever caught weighed 6.6 grams, the most succesful method being hand vibrating a four tyne garden fork inserted approximately 15cms into the turf, known as 'twanging'.
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  • Pro-Democracy protesters with a Free Southern Cameroon group are tackled by Metropolitan police officers after dashing out from behind barriers outside Westminster Abbey during the Commonwealth Day service lead by the Queen and including members of the British royal family and Commonwealth ambassadors and dignitaries. They are holding placards saying Free President Ayuktabe Julius' (an Ambazonian separatist leader) and 'Justice for Babanki' (referring to allegations of soldier killings on villagers), on 9th March 2020, in London, England. At this, their last royal duty before stepping down for private careers, Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will remain president and vice-president of the Queen's Commonwealth Trust, respectively.
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  • Pro-Democracy protesters with a Free Southern Cameroon group are tackled by Metropolitan police officers after dashing out from behind barriers outside Westminster Abbey during the Commonwealth Day service lead by the Queen and including members of the British royal family and Commonwealth ambassadors and dignitaries. They are holding placards saying Free President Ayuktabe Julius' (an Ambazonian separatist leader) and 'Justice for Babanki' (referring to allegations of soldier killings on villagers), on 9th March 2020, in London, England. At this, their last royal duty before stepping down for private careers, Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will remain president and vice-president of the Queen's Commonwealth Trust, respectively.
    commonwealth_day-10-09-03-2020.jpg
  • Pro-Democracy protesters with a Free Southern Cameroon group are tackled by Metropolitan police officers after dashing out from behind barriers outside Westminster Abbey during the Commonwealth Day service lead by the Queen and including members of the British royal family and Commonwealth ambassadors and dignitaries. They are holding placards saying Free President Ayuktabe Julius' (an Ambazonian separatist leader) and 'Justice for Babanki' (referring to allegations of soldier killings on villagers), on 9th March 2020, in London, England. At this, their last royal duty before stepping down for private careers, Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will remain president and vice-president of the Queen's Commonwealth Trust, respectively.
    commonwealth_day-09-09-03-2020.jpg
  • Pro-Democracy protesters with a Free Southern Cameroon group are tackled by Metropolitan police officers after dashing out from behind barriers outside Westminster Abbey during the Commonwealth Day service lead by the Queen and including members of the British royal family and Commonwealth ambassadors and dignitaries. They are holding placards saying Free President Ayuktabe Julius' (an Ambazonian separatist leader) and 'Justice for Babanki' (referring to allegations of soldier killings on villagers), on 9th March 2020, in London, England. At this, their last royal duty before stepping down for private careers, Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will remain president and vice-president of the Queen's Commonwealth Trust, respectively.
    commonwealth_day-07-09-03-2020.jpg
  • Pro-Democracy protesters with a Free Southern Cameroon group are tackled by Metropolitan police officers after dashing out from behind barriers outside Westminster Abbey during the Commonwealth Day service lead by the Queen and including members of the British royal family and Commonwealth ambassadors and dignitaries. They are holding placards saying Free President Ayuktabe Julius' (an Ambazonian separatist leader) and 'Justice for Babanki' (referring to allegations of soldier killings on villagers), on 9th March 2020, in London, England. At this, their last royal duty before stepping down for private careers, Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will remain president and vice-president of the Queen's Commonwealth Trust, respectively.
    commonwealth_day-06-09-03-2020.jpg
  • Pro-Democracy protesters with a Free Southern Cameroon group are tackled by Metropolitan police officers after dashing out from behind barriers outside Westminster Abbey during the Commonwealth Day service lead by the Queen and including members of the British royal family and Commonwealth ambassadors and dignitaries. They are holding placards saying Free President Ayuktabe Julius' (an Ambazonian separatist leader) and 'Justice for Babanki' (referring to allegations of soldier killings on villagers), on 9th March 2020, in London, England. At this, their last royal duty before stepping down for private careers, Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will remain president and vice-president of the Queen's Commonwealth Trust, respectively.
    commonwealth_day-04-09-03-2020.jpg
  • Pro-Democracy protesters with a Free Southern Cameroon group are tackled by Metropolitan police officers after dashing out from behind barriers outside Westminster Abbey during the Commonwealth Day service lead by the Queen and including members of the British royal family and Commonwealth ambassadors and dignitaries. They are holding placards saying Free President Ayuktabe Julius' (an Ambazonian separatist leader) and 'Justice for Babanki' (referring to allegations of soldier killings on villagers), on 9th March 2020, in London, England. At this, their last royal duty before stepping down for private careers, Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will remain president and vice-president of the Queen's Commonwealth Trust, respectively.
    commonwealth_day-02-09-03-2020.jpg
  • Looking down into a steep-sided valley, Distant streets and working-class terraced homes are beyond smoking chimneys from a Furnacite coking plant at Abercwmboi. Once known as the worst polluter in Britain it was owned by the National Coal Board (NCB) and sold to the Welsh Development Asoociation (WDA) for £1 Pound though arguments are still raging about how to clear it up and cleanup estimates range from £15-£20 million. The pollution had cruel effects on the local population. It made smokeless coal and locals joked that the plant took the smoke out and dumped it on the Cynon Valley but there was concern about toxic waste dumped in the village after the plant's closure and some suffered birth defects. Ironically, the plant was closed because of environmental considerations.
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  • Pro-Democracy protesters with a Free Southern Cameroon group are tackled by Metropolitan police officers after dashing out from behind barriers outside Westminster Abbey during the Commonwealth Day service lead by the Queen and including members of the British royal family and Commonwealth ambassadors and dignitaries. They are holding placards saying Free President Ayuktabe Julius' (an Ambazonian separatist leader) and 'Justice for Babanki' (referring to allegations of soldier killings on villagers), on 9th March 2020, in London, England. At this, their last royal duty before stepping down for private careers, Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will remain president and vice-president of the Queen's Commonwealth Trust, respectively.
    commonwealth_day-08-09-03-2020.jpg
  • Pro-Democracy protesters with a Free Southern Cameroon group are tackled by Metropolitan police officers after dashing out from behind barriers outside Westminster Abbey during the Commonwealth Day service lead by the Queen and including members of the British royal family and Commonwealth ambassadors and dignitaries. They are holding placards saying Free President Ayuktabe Julius' (an Ambazonian separatist leader) and 'Justice for Babanki' (referring to allegations of soldier killings on villagers), on 9th March 2020, in London, England. At this, their last royal duty before stepping down for private careers, Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will remain president and vice-president of the Queen's Commonwealth Trust, respectively.
    commonwealth_day-05-09-03-2020.jpg
  • Pro-Democracy protesters with a Free Southern Cameroon group are tackled by Metropolitan police officers after dashing out from behind barriers outside Westminster Abbey during the Commonwealth Day service lead by the Queen and including members of the British royal family and Commonwealth ambassadors and dignitaries. They are holding placards saying Free President Ayuktabe Julius' (an Ambazonian separatist leader) and 'Justice for Babanki' (referring to allegations of soldier killings on villagers), on 9th March 2020, in London, England. At this, their last royal duty before stepping down for private careers, Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will remain president and vice-president of the Queen's Commonwealth Trust, respectively.
    commonwealth_day-03-09-03-2020.jpg
  • Looking down from a person's height, we see two Pitbull dogs standing quietly on a south London street pavement. The two animals seem docile but are attached to leads held by an unknown owner. AT the dogs' feet in a stencilled sign that Lambeth, the local council has left at many locations of its streets where dog owners neglect to collect their pets' mess. Their idea was to paint the words "Bag it. Bin it" to help educate this unhygienic practice. Britain's Dangerous Dogs Act bans the breeding and sale or exchange of four kinds of dog - pit bull terriers, Japanese Tosas, the Dogo Argentinos, and the Fila Brasileiros. Under the act, a dog classed as being "dangerously out of control in a public place" can be destroyed. The owner can be fined and imprisoned for up to six months. If a dog injures someone, the owner can be jailed for up to two years.
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  • Beneath sunlight that filters down through a glass roof, two employees walk through the bright atrium at the British Airways' corporate headquarters at Waterside at Harmondsworth near Heathrow Airport. Passing-by the full-size undercarriage of a Boeing 747, the workers make their way through the bright and clean atmosphere of this airline's nerve-centre, an operational and planning complex designed by architect, Niels Torp, a champion of humanist modern design. It comprises 6 roughly U-shaped buildings with courtyards and lakes stretching out into the landscape. The central spine is the street, complete with village style shops and restaurants. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009). .
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  • With few visitors to see, a young boy pees into the water surrounding a model town at the Splendid China model village, the 30 hectares large tourist attraction in the city of Shenzhen, China. The kid aims into the water with his mother's help. In the background we see some of the 50,000 ceramic figures and scenes from a period in Chinese history and further away, modern skyscrapers in the metropolis contrasting with ancient, traditional village life. Splendid China is an attraction at the Overseas Chinese Town, Shenzhen that has scaled down replicas of China's historical buildings, wonderful scenes and folk customs. The scale models are of a 1:15 with 100 miniaturized landmarks such as The Terracotta Warriors; Great Wall; Forbidden City; Old Summer Palace etc. all laid out according to their geographic locations.
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  • A guest looks out from a walkway down on to a  wide atrium within Sofitel, a 605 bedroom, 27 suite and 45 meeting room accommodation and business hub, situated at Heathrow Airport 's Terminal 5 hotel. Large areas of glass make this a landscape of modernity and the last daylight mixes with artificial lighting from the atrium's spotlights.From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009). ...
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  • We look down behind an airline passenger who is alone on seating in the departures concourse of Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. Mourning the death of a mother, the lady sits with a floral tribute to the recently-deceased relative whose name 'Mum' is laid out next to her in pink flowers. On her lap is the organic Soil Association's magazine Living Earth. Perhaps the woman is on her way to a family funeral and is flying from T5 on this sad flight. Amid the otherwise bustling international airport, the woman seeks solace and tries to sleep before her check-in zone opens. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009). .
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  • Ducking under the falling spray from a giant wave, a passer-by experience the force of nature from a storm off the coasts of southern England - here at the Port of Dover, Kent. As the water hits the sea defence wall, the seaside town is battered by southerly winds that bring with them huge breakers across the promenade. Adventurous and foolhardy people brave these conditions and stay for as long as possible at the railings then jump out at the last moment before getting doused in salt spray. This man carries on walking and thinks that by bending down, the sea will pass overhead.
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  • An elderly gentleman has just emerged from a swim in the cold waters off Paignton, the seaside town in Devon, south-west England. Still to towel himself down, he looks chilled to the bone but stands talking to friends out of view. The man wears dark trunks (costume) and has a large belly but otherwise looks fit and healthy, a true picture of health for a man of his age, after swimming in these seas for many years and enjoying the endorphins that are stimulated after wild, outdoor swims.
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  • On a night out with friends, a group of five ladies are queuing for screen 2 in a Croydon cinema, South  London to see a Bollywood romantic film. On a poster behind, a giant movie hero's face looks towards the viewer with a hand raised in a salute. The man is of a dashing, handsome character  whose dark skin looks like a tanned European person. The women are in good spirits before their favourite film and gather together in the cinema's foyer in expectation. One lady is dressed in a long, smart dress and is staring with wide open eyes. She has a large handbag over the left shoulder and her long hair is spilling down her back....
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  • A female security officer has spotted an abandoned bag with the words 'Giraffe To Go' on the side, inside a lift of Heathrow airport's Terminal 5. The woman talks urgently but calmly using her walkie-talkie. She needs to report it to her controllers as a suspicious package but may turn out to be an innocent lunch bag left by a hurrying and absent-minded passenger, realising their flight is about to close, instead of a bomb left by a malicious terrorist. The lady bends down to give as accurate description as she can before airport police arrive to determine how serious the treat is and possibly order a costly evacuation. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
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  • Seen from a mid-level of the Eiffel Tower, we are looking down on the 15th arrondissement of Paris. Before us are the rooftops of apartment buildings in one of the 20 arrondissements (administrative districts) of the capital city of France. Just adjacent of the Rive Gauche (left bank) of the River Seine and sharing the Montparnasse district with the 6th and 14th arrondissements, it is the city's most populous arrondissement with an area of 8.5 sq km (3.3 sq miles, or 2,101 acres). Many have lead or zinc roofs that are seen as grey material on the tops of these urban homes. It's so bright that some residents have lowered blinds to keep glare out of their cool rooms that overlook other parts of Paris, its trees and curved, narrow streets..
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  • A carer from an elderly peoples' residential home bends down to speak to an old lady who has been taken out for her daily walk in the fresh-air. The lady however cannot walk but seems to be enjoying her daily constitutional from the comfort of her wheelchair that the nursing specialist kindly pushes along a promenade in Frinton-on-Sea in Essex. With her hankie tucked in her sleeve she also seems to be slightly confused as if she might be suffering from a dementia or possibly just old and tired from the hardships after Britain at war. By 2050 the percentage of people worldwide over 65 years will have doubled.
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  • A detail of scratches and the marks of torn down posters in the window of a former shop premises now out of business, on 7th November 2019, in Surbiton, London, England
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  • A stranger bends down to fondle another lady's pet chihuahua while waiting to cross the road, on 21st July, in Porto, Portugal. The poor pooch looks unhappy at being touched by  stranger and tries to twist its head out of the woman's grip. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • New recruits of the Royal Gurkha Regiment swear allegiance to Her Majesty the Queen's portrait during their passing-out parade at their camp at Pokhara, Nepal. After being recruited into the regiment after a gruelling series of tests to eliminate the weaker and less able candidates, the lucky 160 fly to the UK for basic training. 60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those more educated to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. Nepal has been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857
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